Title One
The question is “How I will use my education to give back to my community?” Surprisingly this question seemed to be one of the easiest that I have had to answer during my scholarship and internship search. It was not too long ago that I decided what I wanted to do with my future career. I made the decision that I wanted to pursue a career in the education department; furthermore becoming an elementary school teacher.
When I am finally given the opportunity to become a teacher my goal is to teach within a title one school. A title one school, being a school with high rates of children from low-income families essentially schools below the poverty line. I believe that teaching at a title one public school will give me the opportunity
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From what I have witnessed many times growing up, the children who come from the “bad” backgrounds or low incomes are the children who really want to do something with their lives but are not allotted the opportunities to do so because of the backgrounds that they come from. These underrepresented neighborhoods have a plethora of children with immense amounts of talents but because of the amount of money that they have, the way that they look, or the neighborhood that they come from they are not able to fully complete all of the tasks that they are more than capable of …show more content…
While I am not as famous as Kim Kardashian or Beyonce and do not have as many connections as they do, I would like to be able to educate my students and give them as much exposure to this world as possible. Push them and reiterate to them time and time again that they are worth it and can do anything that they put their minds to. For these children to grow up and feel like they are not worth it and that they can’t become anything in this world, it seems so easy to just give up and take the easy road out. I want to be there for them to be an influence allowing them to know that no matter how hard life gets there is always a rainbow after a rainy